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The president promised to save 1,100 Indiana jobs, but the company never agreed and now six months later, theyre beginning layoffs.
KELLY WEILL
05.25.17 2:52 PM ET
Donald Trump stood outside a Carrier manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana weeks before taking office and boasted he just saved 1,100 jobs from being shipped to Mexico. Inside the plant, some workers were skeptical. Carrier had promised layoffs, which Trump glossed over in his claim to save over 1,000 jobs.
On Monday, these workers were proven right. Though Trump struck a deal with Carrier promising them $7 million in local business incentives if they kept their Indianapolis plant open, the heating and cooling company warned that it would still outsource a number of Indiana jobs to Mexico, regardless. But the Trump campaign still championed the deal as a win for American workers. This week, the Carrier announced it will cut 632 jobs from its Indiana plant by the end of the year.
For labor leaders like Chuck Jones, the layoffs are a grim told-you-so moment. Jones is president of the United Steelworkers 1999, which represents employees at Carriers Indianapolis plant.
We knew sometime whether it be June, July, or August we were gonna lose 300, 350, somewhere in that vicinity, because they were going to start moving the fan cool lines to Monterrey, Mexico, Jones told The Daily Beast.
In a Monday letter, Carrier put a timeline on its layoffs, announcing that it would eliminate 338 jobs by July 20, and another 290 by December 20. To some employees who expected to be laid off, but did not know when, the announcement was almost a relief.
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underpants
(182,769 posts)Clearly
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Other than, oh, everything he's done in his entire life.
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)oh wait.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)hope and desperation I can understand but if they were paying attention then they should have at least been wary that it was just a scam and photo opp.
Maeve
(42,279 posts)Or, to quote a friend of another Chuck Jones "That's all, folks!"
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)at them. Contact your members of congress and tell them that you are voting DEM in the '18 and '20 elections, and they can thank Don-the-Con for your flip. When you get your new voter reg card showing that you a DEM, make a copy and send it them. Be sure to send a copy to Don-the-Con.
spanone
(135,823 posts)Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Of course I said that when it was happening. But some people thought it was sour grapes. Fuck you blowhards! And what's with the bs misled them, he fucking lied. Call it like it really is.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)They should have believed him.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Well, if they couldn't see right from the start that he is a compulsive liear then they weren't paying attention.
CousinIT
(9,239 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)learning that about this LOSER shyster.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)It's shocking, shocking, I tell ya!
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)290 get CANNED five days before Christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS from outsourcing Carrier and Trump!!!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)billionaire who has never given a shit about the working class is suddenly going to turn around and become their champion.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and many of us predicted that six months after the glad-handing photo ops, the jobs were getting shipped out anyway on the flimsiest of justifications...
This is why I never understand why so many communities fall for the ruse of bending over backwards to give the big corporate employer every concession, tax break and kickback possible just for those jobs to vanish either way.